In this paper, the elevated temperature buckling performance and design of cold-formed square, rectangular and circular hollow section columns made of stainless steel is studied through a numerical modelling investigation. The finite element analysis software Abaqus was employed to perform the&#x...

We estimate the effect of school funding for disadvantaged students on academic underachievement in primary education. For this purpose, we exploit a policy in Belgium that granted additional funding for schools with a share of disadvantaged students of at least 10%. Combining stochasti...

This study presents a global assessment of future cropland exposure to drought risks under climate change, accounting for both climate variability and land-use changes across income groups. We used SPI and SPEI to assess concurrent 3- and 6-month drought risks during major crop-growing&...

In human neuroimaging, brain atlases are essential for segmenting regions of interest (ROIs) and comparing subjects in a common coordinate frame. State-of-the-art atlases derived from histology1,2,3 provide exquisite three-dimensional cytoarchitectural maps but lack probabilistic labels throughout the whole...

The hypothalamus is a small structure located in the center of the brain and is involved in significant functions such as sleeping, temperature, and appetite control. Various neurological disorders are also associated with hypothalamic abnormalities. Automated image analysis of this structure...

Thalamic subregions are commonly, but variably, affected by different forms of frontotemporal dementia. We aimed to better characterize thalamic subregional involvement in genetic frontotemporal dementia with a recently published thalamus segmentation tool that utilizes structural and diffusion MRI, offeri...

The glymphatic system is an emerging target in neurodegenerative disorders. Here, we investigated the activity of the glymphatic system in genetic frontotemporal dementia with a diffusion-based technique called diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space. We investigated 291 subjects&...

Objective: Digital biomarkers can provide frequent, real-time monitoring of health-related behavior and could play an important role in the assessment of cognition in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). However, the validity and reliability of digital biomarkers as measures of cognitive function must ...

Introduction: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) includes heterogenous diseases: behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), primary progressive aphasias (PPA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal syndrome (CBS). We applied neuroanatomical normative modelling to quantify individual atro...